TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Lodi winery Viaggio Estate apologizes after refusing to host gay marriage
• He’s Back Again. Fourth Time a Charm? Another Amended Complaint Filed in California Out of State Importer Case
• WX Brands Promotes Bryan Moreno to Senior Vice President of Global Sales
• K-J wine exec inspired by wife’s illness leads team opening fitness studios
• How 19 Crimes and Augmented Reality Helped Revolutionize the Wine Label (Sponsored)

• Mediterranean diet linked to lower cognitive decline in U.S. seniors
• How to Modernize Your Wine Club (Sponsored)

• Nearly 3,000 illegal marijuana businesses found in California audit, dwarfing legal trade
• Wine and weed tourism could be on the horizon
• NZ: Hemp among the vines
• The Next Step To A Virtual Winery (Sponsored)

• The Russian River: Managing at the Watershed Level
• Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Legal Framework: ‘All the acronyms you need to know’
• Tweaks to Senate Bill 1 leave critical Calif. water questions unresolved
• Fresno County hits record crop value with full water allotment

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Nearly all Sonoma County vineyards are certified sustainable
• Natural, organic or biodynamic? What the word on your wine label really means
• French wines show hot dry years are now normal
• Grape hopes for organic wine in the UK

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• WA: Family-owned winery places focus on building community
• Central Washington winery all about terroir
• From Napa Valley to Willamette Valley — An Update and Assessment

• Beringer 2016 Bourbon Barrel Red Blend – Best served over pancakes.
• 2016 Regio Cabernet Sauvignon (Lodi, CA)
• 2016 “Educated Guess” North Coast Red Wine Blend – A tasty formulation
• 2017 Firesteed Pinot Noir (Willamette Valley, Oregon)

• California bill likely to convert gig workers into employees

• Hello Kitty Wine is not the cat’s meow in North Carolina
• WA: M-F to explore building wine facility
• Texas wine beginnings

• Drought-tolerant grape research expanded through new grant and partnership
• Research takes aim at grape powdery mildew

• In search of virus-free vines
• Identification of Vitis Cultivars, Rootstocks and Species Expressing Resistance to a Planococcus Mealybug
• Spray specialist promotes crop-adapted approach

• UK government’s wine red tape backtrack to cost industry millions
• Vignobles de Vendéole gets off the ground
• Alsace - The New Generation Speaks Out (Part Two)
• Louis XIII Cognac: A 21st Century Strategy Rooted In Traditional Values

• Introducing Tasmania's newest vineyard area: Forcett to become a force in wine industry
• New Zealand Wine Industry faces challenges
• OZ: Wine in a Can back in the hands of the inventors

• How to Blind-taste Beer
• Don't force a White Claw fall — hard cider is the ideal late summer libation
• Brewers Association targets China and Europe to grow US craft beer sales